This work is based on the premise that the inherent purpose of education is the construction of man as an autonomous person and that high school is privileged mediation in the educational process for identity constitution in adolescents, thus contributing to the construction of autonomy. In the high school curriculum mediation, philosophy has an important role to play, as it meets its legitimacy with the commitment of pursuing the sense of human existence. Human existence, in its turn, is constituted by the social condition of the species, which establishes an intimate connection between knowledge and the political dimension of man's historical existence. That connection explains how philosophical education is articulated to education for citizenship, which is understood as the most complete current form of full human achievement in man's social insertion.
philosophy; high school education; philosophy teaching; philosophical; education; citizenship